Lucki's First Grow Journal

[Lucki Luchiano]

Greetings my fellow growers/smokers. This is my first grow actually done right and with advice of people that know what they are talking about. I converted 4' X 2' of my closet into my grow room I have 2 4' cool whites, 2 2' cool whites, and a 60w cool white cfl as my lighting, I have a 6" fan and am using FFOF soil with 20% perlite on the bottom for drainage. I have 8 seedlings so far 3 are bagseed, and 5 are a mix of purple kush, and sour diesel that I got from my buddy. I am going to go with FF neuts as I was advised to do. So here goes....

1/4/11 Seeds put into germ
1/8/11 Seeds sprouted, put into rockwool cubes and domed
1/11/11 Seedlings put into FFOF/perlite mix and watered with filtered water
1/15/11 Babies watered with 50% big bloom mix

Any questions, comments, and most importantly suggestions or advice please feel free. I am a n00b and am trying to learn everything there is to know.


Heres what we are looking like as of tonight. I have them on 24/0

 

[SCARHOLE]

Do you got the CFLs with in 2 inches of the plants top, they apear to be streatching for light.

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

yes they are very close to the light about 2". 3 of them may look that way because I think I left them in the dome for too long.

 

[kingofqueen]

Yeah they will stretch if you leave em in the dome for too long . As soon as they sprout the dome can go .They don't need high humidity after sprouting . You just kinda want to slowly introduce them to the open air then ditch the dome .

Other than that looks like your off to a good start ! +rep

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

What is the best time to put the lights on at this time? 24/0 or 18/6. Any suggestions on what works best for you would be a great help. I have them on 24/0 now

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

And I'm also trying to figure out if I should just water the soil or should I also spray the leaves as well too.

 

[kingofqueen]

I'd flip em to 18/6 once you transpant to bigger pots .

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

Thanx kingofqueen +REP for all your help. When do they get transplanted during veg or flowering? And any advice on the foliar feeding? Im researching it now

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

Actually I was reading your grow journal and I think I might try LST since it seems to work with smaller spaces.

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

On my way to home depot to get some cfl's I think I can make it brighter any suggestions on how many and what size?? Anybody its about 4' X 1 1/5 - 2' X about 5' in height with 8 plants in there. I have (1) 40w - 60w cfl cant remember right now, (2) 20w 4' cool white lights and (2) 34w cool whites.

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

UPDATE: Just added 6 more cfl's inside my grow room. 4 6500K daylight and 2 2700K soft whites now its bright in there.

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

Updating my journal: 1-19-11 Checked the plants today after adding more light last night. What a BIG difference they are really looking good. Three of my girls have a little neut burn so I'll just give em just filtered water. I'll post some pics later on when the kids go to sleep.

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

This is Ciara


Lacy


Megan


Keri


Nikki


Jessica


Halle (pic taken upside down sorry)



Alicia

Feel free to comment Alicia, Lacy, Keri all have a little neut burn so ill just give them some plain water for now which is actually the feeding there on and ill have to go to a 1/3rd neuts instead of half i guess.

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

P.S. Ciara by far is Daddy's girl lol

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

Had a little bit of sunshine here today so took my two smallest ones and put em in the window for a little sun. And definitely have to cut the neuts back, Lacy's burn got a little worse since yesterday, but she still is the biggest by far.

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

I like the results im getting from these cfl's think im going to stick wit em all the way through. Some things I was reading was that cool whites were what you go with in the veg stage (I know not to ever listen to them again) since I switched to daylight and soft white I can see progress everyday. So the hell with buying a hps/mh setup right now im just going to add about 6 cfl's this week (since they are on sale at menards) hey it can only be a good thing. I've also noticed that the cfl's @ home depot only go as high as 5000k, menards is the only store with cfl's at 6500k. I need to change out the cool white tubes I have and I think I will go with (1)daylight 6500k and (1) full spectrum 5000k in each of the 2 reflectors I have which will give me a total of (12) daylight cfl's (2) 2' daylight/full spectrum floro tube, and (2) 4' daylight/full spectrum on 8 plants I think that should be more than enough veg light. I already bought 16 2700k cfl's for when I get to flowering. Two week pics will be coming tomorrow. They got a big bloom watering today, and are looking nice and healthy with the exception of 2 one had a light fall on her and the other one is just sick with brown spots and drooping. This is the last week on just big bloom they go to big bloom/grow big neut next week. All of this is again my plan in theory for my lights anybody that can add 2 cents and improve my grow please do, other than that all things are pointing to success so far

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

Anybody familiar with the FF neut system?? is it absolutely necessary to use open sesame, beastie bloomz, and cha ching I have GB, BB, and TB i'm just wondering if the results with those three are definately worth it because it expensive for the little amount that I would use

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

Two week old Pics (15 days old to be exact)



And my sick plants

 

[newworldicon]

What is the best time to put the lights on at this time? 24/0 or 18/6. Any suggestions on what works best for you would be a great help. I have them on 24/0 now

I tried to find a study done under strict testing means regarding light schedules for vegging but cant find the fooking thing now, anyway the study showed that there was only a 15% increase in growth under 18/6 vs. 14/10. 20/4 and 24/0 became obsolete as they were too energy consuming. The 14/10 was by far the most efficient if taking the amount of growth vs. energy consumption into account. I employ this and am very happy with moms progress at producing clones every fortnight as well as the resulting clones.

 

[Lucki Luchiano]

I tried to find a study done under strict testing means regarding light schedules for vegging but cant find the fooking thing now, anyway the study showed that there was only a 15% increase in growth under 18/6 vs. 14/10. 20/4 and 24/0 became obsolete as they were too energy consuming. The 14/10 was by far the most efficient if taking the amount of growth vs. energy consumption into account. I employ this and am very happy with moms progress at producing clones every fortnight as well as the resulting clones.

so newworld you suggest 14/10 for veg and then 12/12. I would love to read that study if you can find it please send me the link